Krapka;KOMA is a Ukrainian multi-instrumentalist electronic duo. Following down the roads of indie-electronica, trip-hop & nu-jazz, Ira and Alona break new ground using a crazy amount of instruments both live and on their recordings.
To date Krapka;KOMA has released an EP, 3 international collaborations, 6 music videos, were released on vinyl in Los Angeles and had over 70 self-booked shows in Ukraine and Europe including Waves Vienna, The Great Escape, Sziget, Reeperbahn & ESNS festivals.
Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by russia, the duo has been touring abroad in order to promote Ukrainian culture and raise awareness about the war.
Lenoczka is a Ukrainian artist based in Kryvyi Rih, working with different mediums - electronic music, video and graphics, vjing, AV-performances. In her practice she promotes ideas of the unbound experiment, digging local contexts, using the most affordable instruments, the free sharing of knowledge, and collaboration with other minds. Having lived and worked for some time in Kharkiv, Lenoczka was forced to move by the invasion, and the massive damage dealt to Kharkiv by russian weapons. "In the first months after the invasion, I volunteered in the humanitarian field and after the adrenaline went down, burnout began. Coming back to the creation of artworks was a long process. My new mission is to strengthen and develop the local artist scene, so Kryvyi Rih will become not only industrial but a cultural centre of the region."
Yulia Kyrychenko
Originally from Kyiv, Yuliia is currently based in Paris. She received her MA from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv, along with a Gold medal of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine. From 2022, Yuliia has been studying at L’école Nationale Supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy.
Yuliia's artistic practice is based on sacred themes, posthumanism, and conscious-unconscious images; focusing on own reflections, surrealism, post-punk, with modern decadent concepts, denying modern tendencies that seek chaos, leading to entropy.
Kseniia Kostianets is a collage artist from Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. Her collage workshop and moniker, KOLASHKA.UA, serves as a space for her to create her own works and help others to explore the medium.
KOLASHKA.UA is a project of waste-paper reuse, for rethinking found, printed artifacts such as old newspapers and magazines, posters on street walls etc. Kseniia's collage-making is inspired by both Ukrainian folk wisdom and her study of literature and 'great masters of the word'.
During the full scale war, Kseniia's creations have helped her to trace her experiences, to work them through, make conclusions and keep on acting to bring Ukrainian Victory closer.
[…] (as ‘helleroid’)
[…] is a multidisciplinary artist from Ukraine, now based in Berlin. As a musician and visual communication designer, they explore love, connection, freedom, sustainability and the science behind creativity itself to create multimedia stories.
Their process is driven by concern about mental traumas, gender, racial inequality, and ecological issues that plague our modern world.
Experimenting with technologies, helleroid dives deep into the connection between physical and spiritual, natural and artificial, creating a “bodybraindance”, discovering more about honesty, trust and compassion, which seem so lacking today.
They are not afraid to speak out against discrimination, including sexism and racism, and hope to inspire people to take action against inequality and work towards a better future.
“I am looking forward to us living in a hybrid community where we can love each other and no longer care about old fashioned social constructs. Through communication, through frequencies and colours, playing with words, forms, shapes, lines, moves. Feeling, listening, observing. So we can finally find peace”